Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

I also have wood floor tiles in my kitchen and dining room 12 inch square and not aging well either.

Are they Parquet flooring? I find they wear out fast. Have to say we put that fake wood look laminate flooring down and it’s awesome - easy to clean and doesn’t dent when you drop a hammer on it. Unlike the hardwood flooring in the dining room! Don’t drop a hammer on that stuff - oooops!

Floored tax

Mr P and the McNugget triplets.

 

[Ponypoor]

It’s all the expensive meds I am prescribed for. Doctors prescribed meds. The pharmaceutical companies want patients. My doctors just prescribe new medications. Hard to find an honest doctor in Central Valley, they are all subsidized by large pharmaceutical. $$$$ money talks patients suffering from it!
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Hope you’re feeling a wee bit better on your meds

Those kiddos are growing up fast! Will you keep them all?

 

[Ponypoor]

Just stopped in to say hi! Good to see you folks and God bless. What's 3I Atlas doing today?

How are you? Hope your winter hasn’t been to miserable so far.

How are the chooks?

 

[kattabelly]

Interesting. I am thinking maybe to get the insulated waterer and abandon the hanging waterers during the winter.

Frost bite isn't a concern here but I've noticed that only larger, lower gravity waterers get the boys' wattles wet. The smaller ones that I have hanging fairly high up have a narrower rim (rim? the bit the water sits in) so there's really only room to dip their beaks. The outer lip of the water bit holds their wattles back.

 

[rural mouse]

Never gets old!

Reason for the wind

North, morning

South, mid afternoon

 

[Ponypoor]

Morning clown car

Oh wow - what happened to your snow, that can’t be good, no snow. Looks very dry there now.

 

[Ponypoor]

Reason for the wind

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Beautiful vistas.

 

[rural mouse]

Oh wow - what happened to your snow, that can’t be good, no snow. Looks very dry there now.

It's been dry, windy, and temp highs mid 50s (10-15C), but wind is cold enough that have to bundle up rather than go with shirtsleeves. Birds have been enjoying the sun from wind sheltered locations....but if it doesn't change, next summer will be miserable.

 

[Ponypoor]

It's been dry, windy, and temp highs mid 50s (10-15C), but wind is cold enough that have to bundle up rather than go with shirtsleeves. Birds have been enjoying the sun from wind sheltered locations....but if it doesn't change, next summer will be miserable.

I heard it was really warm out west in many places, lots of rain in BC near Vancouver, flooding in Abbotsford - o worked on a pipeline job there and it’s all flat and low land - and thousands of chickens on factory farms - I feel for the chickens and cattle caught in the floods .

Meanwhile here in the east cold and snowy.

Mrs LC has wee wattles

 

[Sylvester017]

Belated twofer and a wattle wobble workout in preparation for today (I have no idea why he decided to take a mud bath)
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Tiny, the black pullet just in front of him, has the cutest wattles
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Cutie birdies

& yes,like your roo, chickens seem to love damp soil for dirtbaths! That's why our white or silver chickens turn to dingy beige...the dirt & mud stains their pretty feathers.

Here is our Silver Partridge Silkie juvenile before releasing outdoors

Dirt/mud baths outdoors stain her to brown!